The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-30
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e9s9s THE WOLF
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Monsieur D'Arville must have repeated
the story. often, fof5he related il fuently,
never hesitating over words s skillfppHy
chosen for j ftnresaua effect. j liz
Gentlemen he:a $adI meyer hunted
in my life. lfoT my father either, nor Erffy
grandfather, nor even my great-grand-
fdther. But my great-grandfather was
the SON Of q man Hho hunted more than I;
all of ySuss put together. He died Id ! f64s
lam going to toll you bow; g'EiE:iEst;
> His name was Jean; he was married;
father of the child destined to become my
Ancestor, and-he lived with his younger
brother, Francois D'Arville, in our old
chateau inl l9rraineJwhiGh YES, SITUATED ed
in the forest.
Francois D'Arville had remained a
bachelor for pure love Of hunting.
Both of them used to so hunting to-
gether; they hunted from one years end
to the other, without rest, without q
pause; Without eyer getting tiFets That;
Was all they liked, all the j! tisasraeoGd,I
ali they talked about, Eli THY l7i Ved fdrr.!
1t was passion with both of them
terrible: ipeXorable,, 1t, consumed them,
flied their entire being, left NO place for
anything else.
They had given orders that: tA6ywere
never to be interrupted while hunting,
under any pretext Whateverii Aiy ancestor
was born while his father was chasing O
fox, and Jean never thought of stopping
bis hunt on receiving the news. He only
swore: "Nom dun nom! the little rascal
might very well have waited till after the,
death!' " : d: - #### :
His brother Francois vas "a still more
furious hunter AS soon as he got piof
morning he would go to look after the
dogs and the horses; then he would shoptg
birds around the chateau until time came
to start on, chase for bigger game.
The country people used to call them
the Marquis and the Junior. Both were
extraordinarily tall, bony, hairy, violent
and strong. The younger, who was still
taller than his brother, had a voice so
powerful that, according to a. popular ssy.'
ing which he was proud TO hear repeated,
all the leaves of the forest trembled when
he shouted. --.r>-..- ....
And when they started off on horseback
for the chase together it must have been a
fine sight to see the two giants bestrad-
| ding their great horses.
Now, about the middle Of the winter of
| 1864 the cold became excessive and the
| wolves grew ferocious.
| They would even attack peasants going
home late; they prowlcd around the
houses; during the: night, hGwled from
sunset until sunrise, and depopulated the
stables. , ifs.. mir
| And after time g very ugly rumOr be-
| igan to spread. 1t was said that colos-
lsal gray. VOL, which had eaten two chill
ldren, ttevo,ired woman $ arm, strangled
sall the watchdegs The country showed
mo fear Of entering Aick,sares and regil-
.larly went about at night smelling under
;the doors. All the country people de-
Iclared that they had felt his breath-7that
l!its made the lights ticker And a panic
IEsazed: npon: the Whole province, Mo one
! dared venture out after dark. All the
IIshadows seemed haunted by the image of
1.-THE BEAST ! Il = j ~ Il II j.
The D'Arville brothers resolved to find
him and kill him, and they invited all the
gentlemen of the country to a great hunt.
II 1t was all in vain. They secured all
the forests, searched all the Tickets with
out avail; they could never find him.
They killed plenty of wolves, but not that
particular wolf. And each night regu-
larly, after the hunt, the aninal would
attack some belated traveller or devohr
jisome animal--as if just to avenge him.
sself-and this always at quite q distance
from where the last hunt had taken place.
i Ats last one: night he gotsinto, the pig
Evoureti the. two finest pigs. al: : =,
II rho hrotbor- hocor,n ful of oup-pO11-
lisidering this attack as an open defiance
on the menster,s part. :. They got all their
Largest ana best trained h6tifds together
Hand went to the chase in Q great fury.
From earliest dawn until the red sun
began to sink behind the naked trees they
secured the thekets in vain T. :ssn.Ei
AT Inst Disappointed sieypnd EElneaslirs
ana angefed hipropertbst, tliey bhga1 Stt
L ride homeward at q walk along n road
bordered with high bushes, wondering
| the, while how ali their SCIENCE could bays
been baffied byttfs wo!f sSfeelirg' sudden
ly sort Of mysterious fear.'t
[ The elder said: e...-
/ .ttThat!s no common animal Seems .hs
thinks like a'iaan. "I'isi's iFi.tls+iH I'3f'sE
The younger replied:
perhaps we ought to get our cousin
the bishop, to bless: bullet for us; or ge
some priest to pronounce the necessary ,ces
) wcrds.'''.' '.'' 'e"'! '-'.
They kept silence while,
Jean spoke again: =, - =, -.
s''Eool how rcd that sun isl; The Will
is going to do some more mischief to
night
He had scarcely spoken when his .hors
reared;S that Of his brother! Francois be
gan to plunge. A great bush covered
with dead leaves parted, and d huge ali
mal-=an gray-leaped out ana sho
through the woods. a.. - .y...s ..,.sa..,
Both men uttered something like
S growf Of joy, and bending over the neck
: of their powerful horses, they flung Their
!, | forward with one immense effort of tn
whole body-shet them on with such
yim--exeiting them with gyoice, gestur
, and spur that the strong riders actual
, seemed to be lifting the weighty steed
between their thighs, and flying away wit
them.
| On they went at full speed, eFasitin
through tllinEets, crossing faNipes, iscal
ing Sleeps, laundering down georges, an
+ blowing their horns with all the force 9
their lungs to cali their dogs and the;
men.
And ell of q sudden, during this head
long course, my ancestor struck his hess
against en- enormous branch, which litei
ally cleft his skull, and flung him dead o
the ground, while his terrified horse IA
away and disappeared lin the gathefin
gloom of the woods.
The younger D'Arville at once drel
rein, leaped to The ground, lifted hi
|, brother in his arms, and he saw that til
. brains were 'fuiIihfiiig' rotit OK. the grea
: wendryitfs,t the bleodE i
fHeh he sats doV4 beside tie seorps'
rested Tie CORY and dist Cured Bead upo
his hhsef asdsMnHcnd4 fth@s Ieoking |.
|, / the brothers im1nobile face Graenafl
I / a fesrs came Iapon him, a saagrilaf s fei
d that h. had never felt before-the fear I
tiiedhskilcag Tie ear 81 lifse dasahite fo
est. the fear Of solitude, and also the fei
p OF that. weiEd .Mo which had killed. h
E. bfethers hg wqIspf evHgirg himself ,1stif. e
The darkness. thickened; the cold MAJ
cracklngs in the trees, Francis rose y
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